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Update: Oliveira is feeling much better than expected over the last 24 hours and may possibly only miss 1 game. He apparently said that he even hopes to suit up this weekend, but i would think thats highly unlikely. Its a long season and im sure the Bombers would err on the side of caution with him, especially with how Peterson looked.

He sucks

My conclusion: Brady is Wolverine.

Yeah....He had a perfect group of guys to catch league off-guard at first to toss up a lot of contested balls...and got lucky with that...and they let an awfull lot of OPI go on with his 2 big targets....But teams figured him out...and he faded....also his quick strike plays when not there, and he had to actually decipher a defense...well you seen the difference Our defense especially with multiple looks...and the same looks but it switches at snap...utterly confuses him Betts too...One big season and a lot of that was questionable "was he offside" crap...once he started to get called....and guys got hands on him...What he do? Not a helluva lot...except pout and show a piss poor attitude My gripe with a lot of the CFL Media and especially TSN is this over the top/unwarranted Canadian pushing with certain players....I get it's the CFL but enough already....Market and promote the actual top players who been doing it for yrs...regardless of where they were hatched. The average joe fan or a lot of the new fans they are wanting to pull in...and a lot of them are...and where a it's a huge market is within the immigrant community...they could give a rats ass...Most Canadians really could care less other than a small fraction...Whats it really matter...it's played in Canada...under unique Canadian rules by a lot of Americans who call Canada home yr round...promote that aspect Not to look at things thru blue glasses but it really is an injustice to BO that the powers that be in the CFL don't promote him more...What Canadian RB post the late 70's early 80's...Or player for that matter has won back to back MOC....A MOP and MOC season...gunning for 4 straight 1000 yard seasons...lead league multiple in a row...and actually grew up in Canada...played all his formative ball in Canada prior to College?....These the guys that should be getting the attention

Living in the past I see.... collaros hasn't had the same deep shot precision for a while now. Too many floaters. It's called the blue flu.

Big Wreck?...The Rider Organization has a band??....haha...I'll show myself out now

Apparently Reggie White told the Bombers after camp that he would hang around on the PR for a week but if they didn't have a spot on the active roster for him after that, he had to leave the team and take care of his family... via MOS on the CJOB coaches show

Well said. You’ve definitely earned your stripes today.

Other than BC jock straps you mean,

All I know is BC still sucks.

I’m not saying he’s Casey Printers, but.. B.C Lions, to the NFL, back to the CFL and numbers drop off significantly compared to their first stint does sound awfully familiar.

cfl.ca posted his splits for the Bombers vs the rest of the league, I wish they would have split out the Elks from the 'Rest of the CFL' stats as well. Sophomore slump is definitely a thing. He had a cup of coffee in 2021, and then went super nova in 2022... by the time he came back from his Lisfranc injury the league had caught up to him and the 18 months in the NFL definitely didn't help that. You could tell in the 2022 West Final the Bombers knew exactly how to handle him. BO not being the face of the league is almost marketing malpractice at this point. I think the only player who comes close to his follow on socials is Kelly 🤢. His work with vulnerable animals should be front and centre.

Jefferson gives him the willies!

Big Wreck announced as the main stage act for the free Canada Day concert this year. Solid. They are amazing live. https://www.bluebombers.com/canadaday2025?lid=qspp78e6uy2b&utm_source=braze&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2025-06-17+Canada+Day+Celebration+Announcement&utm_brazeid=652cb67a41bc800001333d27&utm_content=&tf_u[wpg_braze_id]=652cb67a41bc800001333d27&utm_instance=wpg&CAMEFROM=

Ottawa cut Ethan Jordan. Not sure if he's planning to go back to school but I'd give him some PR time here. Huge potential to be a Gittens/Julien-Grant style guy. Even Demski, would be a good guy to learn some routes from.

Zach's deep shot ability is not what is was 2-3 years ago but is still near the top of the league QB wise. He is still very good on the deep ball. The problem is that ANY deep ball is a much lower % completion and we relied on it way too much the past two years under Buck. We can't be taking the amount of deep shots that we have been taking the past couple years and expect high efficiency.

The playbook is the same sure but the way the defense prepares is going to be different and how they react is gonna be different. The threat of Streveler pulling the ball and running with it on a RPO is going to keep teams from keying on our runningback to a degree and certainly Zack's ability to throw a deep ball on a dime has gotta play a role as well.

Run game is basically will but I don't really know what BC is going to be looking at to prep for the Bombers O this week. I think it will look a lot different with Collaros in schematically.

Bachman and Cummings are reuniting for another resurrection tour, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see them being carted out. Like the periodical cicada, B and C rise from the earth every 13 years….each return, more unwelcome than the last.

Me gots a feeling Collaros is gonna go bananas on Saturday.

Excited to see this game with Zach back, Rourke's start is up in the air, season series on the line....I like our chances. Anyone know further details on Rourke?

Could have been less serious than everyone thought. And they just rested him as precaution. No one from the Bomber org has ever addressed the seriousness of the situation. The "missing multiple weeks" narrative came from one person as far as I can tell. One person who is continuously incorrect about all things CFL. Saw them at the Forks on a Canada day years ago. They were great!

yeah I was gonna mention that too...He didnt fare well against the top teams

You deserve a timeout for that! 😁 Schoen for me...He's getting 2 so it evaporates my strike last week...New rule

Awesome pick. We aren't going full doman or any thing, but the bands we've got for the game stuff so far are awesome picks.

And a bunch of beating up on weak teams in that too.

He had 8 REALLY good games 3 years ago and he has been riding that in the CFL ever since.

I don't know about arrogant for him, but his booster group for sure is. And I 100% agree, among the cfl fans I know across the league, most people don't like rourke. The media has tried to elevate him to messianic levels, but only succeeded in making him unlikable. I think he him self is the usual headspace QB1s live in. Maybe a little less crazy/egotisical. But the hype train is gigantic. Yeah, and I think you don't create excitement, especially league wide, by being a tire biting bandwagon type at the media level. If I wanted to pump up the excitement league wide, I'd be talking about the young guys who are poised to explode onto the scene. For us, guys like Vaval, Adams, and Wheatfall. Guys around the league like Brown, Alexander and yes, Rourke. Instead of pitching Rourke as the next/current Flutie, you pitch the 3 guys as the next generation of top tier QBs. You put them up against each other and consider who will be the top guy. Any 2 of those 3 playing each other should be huge, or 1 playing a guy like Zach, Harris, vaj etc. Thats how you hype up and sell a game.

Farhan with another whiff.

And Cooley. Situation is kind of bizarre though. Unless he had some extreme pain going they must have had some indication on initial assessment of the PT's/sideline docs that there is structural issue.

I'm hoping our pass protection is as good this week as it was last week -- a clean Zach is a dangerous Zach.

Oh you dont get it. I am basically cursing him

Send the in-depth interviewees to the MBB community and we’ll ‘grill’ them in our own unique ways. Pure gold, pure entertainment.

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I personally find it hilarious - he was penciled in by so many as MOP/MOC. Has to do nothing to earn his flowers from so many.

Rourke might have Winnipegitis and not start.

Glad to read that BO may not be injured as much as many have speculated. That being said, rest him until he’s ready to punish and go with the young guy. Excited about Wheatfall, the less greedy Lawler 😁

Lawler's a Money Player. He doesn't play well in championhip games. He's a Money Player in the sense that he just follows the money trail after every contract. There's a difference with guys like Ken Ploen, Jackie Parker, Warren Moon or Doug Flutie. They always seemed to bring their best performances in their biggest games. You could always count on them to perform to the best of (if not more) of their abilities. Lawler just goes where he'll get paid. The angry Lawler we see after every catch is such an act.

Like Tom Brady after his 4 gamer vs the Bengals....I feel sorry for the BC Bengals.

So it's now a bootlicker vs Boochlicker around here. 😁

This is a stupid contest, the cheat codes don't even work!

I don’t think it will. They kept Strev in the pocket quite a bit. Zach has a better arm and I think he can hit those short to intermediate a little bit better, but I think you’ll see a lot of the same, steady ground game, play action, and schemes to get the ball into their playmakers hands.

Well the good thing is, even if he has issues, I feel damn good about our chances with Strev playing. The big question will be what the running game looks like when the opponent has a week to prep for you...

Its is clearly a move by MOS to troll all of us here at MBB.

please someone scoop him ...please! lol Maybe Castillo is gonna do both jobs....Bailey on for Punter guy and Cobb on for BO? Swap out Sterns for Cooley?...makes sense to me...

those splits would be ugly lol. For QBs especially, once you have a decent sample of game footage and seen how the guy plays when he’s game planned for, every thing changes. It’s easy for a qb to take defences by surprise, especially if he’s athletic, before they have film and experience with him. That’s a huge part of the sophomore slump and why it generally doesn’t get better late into that 2nd year as a starter. we’ve seen soo many fly by night guys who can’t replicate their early success.

But only if one is a sneak?

I drove by Freddies and saw the drive thru with 20 cars deep. Winnipeg people sure like mediocre fast food chains. Then again for dinner I was dragged to Olive Garden and it was jam packed and the pasta that I had was only a minor notch above a microwave dinner. It always blows my mind on why the location on Reenders is always so busy when the food is very expensive and mediocre. Every dish is near 30 dollars and very subpar.